Harry S. Truman Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Harry S. Truman on Wise Famous Quotes.
Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan
you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.
you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.
He'll sit there are he'll say "Do this! Do that!" and nothing will happen. Poor Ike - it won't be a bit like the army.
Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time
Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.
It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.
There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.
Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.
If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.
Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.
I believe in the brotherhood of man, not merely the brotherhood of white men but the brotherhood of all men before law.
If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.
An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.
I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.
The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.
I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.
Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.
Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!
I received a card the other day from Steve Early which said, Don't Worry Me
I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay.
I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay.
There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Prosperous farmers make for a prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble.
Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.
The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.
I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else.
The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.
Doing the right thing is easy. [It is] much more difficult [to ... ] figure out what [the right thing] is.
We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.
This Nation was established by men who believed in God ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.
Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.
One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.